Well, I don't know what it is like in a normal family with normal kids, but that is what it is like with Noah most of the time.

Yesterday Noah's camp had their end of the year camp show. I wasn't able to go but Rich was there. Noah was awesome. In fact, after it was over Rich called me to tell me about it and he was all choked up about it. It was really sweet.

One of the songs his group did was Michael Jackson's Beat It. Noah had a "dance" solo towards the end. Here is a little clip of it. He's in all black with the gold vest. Please note the large white glove he is wearing. ;)

The video is about 23 seconds. It makes me smile and laugh. This is the incredible.

And then the awful, awful, awful...today at karate I saw him taking money out of my purse. I told him to put it back. He grabbed it anyway and went running out of the karate studio. In front of everyone in the middle of my class.

That is what he is doing now. If he doesn't like what we are telling him to do, or if he is being reprimanded or directed to do something he doesn't want to do, he takes off.

I refuse to run after him. It would be like trying to catch a puppy. I won't catch him and it will just be more fun for him.

So instead I feel absolutely ineffective because at the moment there is not a thing I can do until he comes back.

Awful, awful, awful...

And then we came home and he helped me pick up and vacuum, and it was a little bit of the incredible again.

"Who are you?" Noah asked me once. I didn't have an answer for him. Join me as I attempt to figure this out.So, who am I?

Like I said, I'm working on that, but here's what I do know.

After seven years of infertility my family is finally complete. So join me as I figure out how to have it all, while figuring out what "all" is.

Cast of characters:

Rich - aka Amazing Daddy (AD) - husband and father extraordinaire. My partner in this crazy parenting adventure. Not to mention my soul mate and best friend for the last twelve years.

Noah - aka The Boy (TB) - despite a six month detour in a Russian orphanage, still my "first born." Challenged with ADHD, attachment issues, sensory processing disorder, PDD-NOS, and most recently bipolar disorder, he still charms and amuses us daily.

Kiel - aka Baby Brother (BB) - our science baby. Not linked to us by genes, yet still carried within me for 41 amazing miraculous weeks. The culmination of seven years of fertility treatments, including several IUI's and three IVF cycles.